Engineer and founder helping people and small businesses build with AI — no code required.
CPTO and Co-founder at Chipp.ai
Greer, South Carolina
I've spent 14 years building software in the consumer technology industry — 9 as an engineer at places like Reddit, Amazon Music, and The Home Depot, and the last 5 as a founder.
These days I lead product and engineering at Chipp, where we're making it easy for anyone to create and deploy AI-powered apps.
Hunter is the CPTO and Co-founder of Chipp, a no-code AI platform serving over 16,000 builders with more than 80,000 apps reaching 36 million users. Chipp brings software margins to service industries by connecting non-traditional software buyers with pre-built AI tooling that fits their niche use cases.
Before Chipp, Hunter founded Cottage, a marketplace that crowd-sourced MVPs for non-technical startup founders while providing junior engineers with real-world coding experience. Cottage laid the groundwork for Chipp by exploring how to bridge the gap between non-traditional software buyers and SaaS solutions.
No-code AI platform serving over 16,000 builders with more than 80,000 apps reaching 36 million users. Like ChatGPT and Wix had a baby. Bringing software margins to service industries by connecting non-traditional software buyers with pre-built AI tooling that fits their niche use cases. Using AI to stack development leverage while building an AI platform.
Brought ed-tech knowledge to Ohai, a learning platform. Left during the pivot to build Chipp.ai with colleague Scott Meyer after realizing the gen-AI wave could bring software margins to service businesses.
Crowd-sourced MVPs for non-technical startup founders while providing junior engineers with real-world coding experience. Clients posted Figma designs, Cottage broke them into component-level competitions, and junior engineers competed to build the best component using React.js, Next.js, and TypeScript. Winning solutions deployed into Softr.io no-code apps as micro-frontends. First attempt at bridging the gap between non-traditional software buyers and SaaS — ultimately laid the groundwork for Chipp.
Taught a 16-week coding bootcamp that converted Home Depot associates into full-stack software engineers. Built an e-learning platform that retrained 290 software engineers in 3 months on isomorphic rendering with React.js and Node.js.
Helped build the new reddit.com with React.js, Redux, and TypeScript. Created a tool to programmatically measure UI rendering performance across ~15 engineers and incorporated it into CI. The tool was built into an executive dashboard that informed the C-suite on launch readiness of the redesigned site.
Helped launch Amazon Music Unlimited. Created a tool to programmatically identify performance regressions in release candidates and incorporated it into the release pipeline. Also helped build the redesigned Amazon Music Desktop player as a hybrid web application.
Learned how to raise venture capital. Received mentorship from the founders of startups such as Robinhood, Kraken, and Ring.
Supplemented high school curriculum with college-level computer science classes during junior year.
Started studying computer science in high school through the AP curriculum, covering algorithms, networking basics, and OOP fundamentals in C++ and Java.
AP Computer Science curriculum covering OOP basics with Java applets.
A technical guide for operating 10 AI development machines autonomously with a KVM over IP console and Slack prompt relay.
CS fundamentals matter more than ever. AI automates grunt work, but you still need to know when the machine is wrong.
Every major abstraction in computing replaced something lower-level, but we still teach the fundamentals. AI is no different.
Hunter and Scott discuss MCP servers, Claude Code, and bridging the AI adoption gap for teams.